S: (n) allograph (a variant form of a grapheme, as `m' or `M' or a handwritten version of that grapheme)
S: (n) check character (a character that is added to the end of a block of transmitted data and used to check the accuracy of the transmission)
S: (n) superscript, superior (a character or symbol set or printed or written above and immediately to one side of another character)
S: (n) subscript, inferior (a character or symbol set or printed or written beneath or slightly below and to the side of another character)
S: (n) ASCII character (any member of the standard code for representing characters by binary numbers)
S: (n) ligature (character consisting of two or more letters combined into one)
S: (n) capital, capital letter, uppercase, upper-case letter, majuscule (one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis) "printers once kept the type for capitals and for small letters in separate cases; capitals were kept in the upper half of the type case and so became known as upper-case letters"
S: (n) type (printed characters) "small type is hard to read"
S: (n) percent sign, percentage sign (a sign (`%') used to indicate that the number preceding it should be understood as a proportion multiplied by 100)
S: (n) space, blank (a blank character used to separate successive words in writing or printing) "he said the space is the most important character in the alphabet"
S: (n) phonetic symbol (a written character used in phonetic transcription of represent a particular speech sound)
S: (n) rune, runic letter (any character from an ancient Germanic alphabet used in Scandinavia from the 3rd century to the Middle Ages) "each rune had its own magical significance"
S: (n) ideogram, ideograph (a graphic character that indicates the meaning of a thing without indicating the sounds used to say it) "Chinese characters are ideograms"
S: (n) radical (a character conveying the lexical meaning of a logogram)